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Saturday  Afternoon

30/6/2014

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The imperfect sounds of a child practicing piano gently waft through the air against another child's tears.
Cafe's full of people connected to their technology.
Texting and sharing their vegan raw salad and organic fairtrade coffee
The rain of the morning has past
Perhaps an afternoon massage
A skilled stranger, intimate with their distance

Leave rustling gently in the passing breeze
This defines ease
This is leisure
Pleasure of a Saturday afternoon
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Gratitude always stays

17/6/2014

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Some days I awake feeling no so great

Physical pain, mental anguish, emotional stress
any of these button can press on my chest

Try not to react, try not to show, even try to laugh, but hold back the cry

Not everything so easy to shake
Even after my routines, feeling irate

and that's just fine
can't be happy every day
but gratitude
that always stays.
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The Boy and the Rift

6/6/2014

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About 40 years ago
or so

There was a boy who wanted to fly though a tear up in the sky

A portal
Ripped to who knows where

Most to try
Are too scared

But not this boy...he embraced his fear

Fear - A distressing emotion aroused by impending danger, evil, pain, etc...

Up and away did he clear

Upon homeade wings of various things

Wood and plastic
cotton fabric

Dreams and love

Glues and screws
Carried this dreamer toward the tear
Up
Up
UP
and
THERE
In
at that place

WINNER of the rainbow race

But the prize more than gold for those so bold
Who rise like cream upon the top

Resisting those who would pop

Their vision pure
Another door
Some will always seek for more
Like the boy 2 score before

Who flew
Into the great yonder sky blue

Other's waited for him to fail
Some sent blessings upon his sail

But none did see him again, often wondering what did happen.
To the boy who flew with wings a flappin


There is but on thing they all know
Since that day, the rift is closed
And the rain tastes of tears

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    Douglas Karson

    I love poetry.

    It can be whimsical or epic, unbearably long or just two memorable lines, mature and dark or light and childish.

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